Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3857724 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sekhar Bandyopadhyay |
| PRENOMES | Sekhar |
| SOBRENOME | Bandyopadhyay |
| ASSINATURA | BANDYOPADHYAY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2178-5268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal
Although many commentators believed that caste did not matter in West Bengal, in recent years it has emerged as a significant factor in electoral politics. The decline of the Left and the rise of the centrist-incumbent have fanned identity politics and the resurgence of caste-based political mobilisation. In this conversation, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, a well-known expert in the history and politics of caste in Bengal, illuminates the complexities, u…
Indians and the Antipodes
This book looks at the history of Indian migrants in Australia and New Zealand over a period of two and a half centuries. It looks at the history of their migration, settlement, and encounter with racism. Indians now constitute a significant ethnic minority in Australia and New Zealand. According to the most recent census figures, they number slightly more than half a million, but represent a successful ethnic community making significant contrib…
Religion and Modernity in India
Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual’s private life, is a challenging idea for any culture. In India it faces a particularly unusual problem: the persistence of numerous traditional and religious practices means that religion and modernity co-habit here in a complex, plural, transient, and historically evolving relationship. Religion and Modernity in India explores this complex relationship through a seri…
Partition in Bengal
The essay introduces caste as a category for discussing the history of Partition of India, which until now has focused almost exclusively on the Hindus, Sikhs and the Muslims. The Dalit or the ‘untouchables’ of India are usually left out of this discussion, and whenever they are brought in, they are portrayed as either disinterested onlookers or accidental victims. On the contrary, as this essay will argue, the Dalit were deeply entangled in Part…
India–New Zealand Relations in the New Century
India–New Zealand relations, which could be historically dated back to the days of the British Empire, lacked until recently in substance and were rocked by several irritants, the most important of which were the divergent views on the issue of nuclear non-proliferation. However, in last one decade or so there have been some remarkable developments in this bilateral relation, as the security interests of the two nations have converged, volume of …
Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives
Journal Article Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965. Get access Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 254. $50.00. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Victoria University of Wellington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
Partition and the Ruptures in Dalit Identity Politics in Bengal
A number of historical studies have revealed that there were powerful Dalit movements among groups such as the Rajbansis and Namasudras in northern and eastern districts in colonial Bengal. The weakening and in some cases almost disappearance of these movements after 1947 is difficult to explain. One plausible explanation could lie in the emotional and physical displacement caused by Partition of the province. Both groups lived in the border regi…
The Story of an Aborted Revolution
In the early days of independence the province of West Bengal witnessed a violent communist upsurge in 1948–50. In many ways the events of this period foreshadowed what happened in this province during the Naxalite experiment of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. This paper, using recently declassified IB records, seeks to reconstruct this less-known episode in the history of the communist movement in India. It was apparently an attempt to reviv…
Indian Cinema and the Presentist Use of History
This article critically assesses Deepa Mehta's Earth (1998) and Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan (2001) as cultural outputs of recent political and historical debates over the nature of India's nationhood. The article argues that the films politicize history, constructing an innocent past with the aim of advocating a more inclusive Indian society
Freedom and its enemies
The fiftieth anniversary of Indian Independence became an occasion for the publication of a huge body of literature on post-colonial India. Understandably, the discussion of 1947 in this literature is largely focussed on Partition - its memories and its long-term effects on the nation.\nEarlier studies on Partition looked at the 'event' as a part of the grand narrative of the formation of two nation-states in the subcontinent; but in recent times…
Caste, culture, and hegemony
Transfer of Power and the Crisis of Dalit Politics in India, 1945-47
Ever since its beginning, organized dalit politics under the leadership of Dr B. R. Ambedkar had been consistently moving away from the Indian National Congress and the Gandhian politics of integration. It was drifting towards an assertion of separate political identity of its own, which in the end was enshrined formally in the new constitution of the All India Scheduled Caste Federation, established in 1942. A textual discursive representation o…
From alienation to integration
Transfer of Power and the Crisis of Dalit Politics in India, 1945-47
Ever since its beginning, organized dalit politics under the leadership of Dr B. R. Ambedkar had been consistently moving away from the Indian National Congress and the Gandhian politics of integration. It was drifting towards an assertion of separate political identity of its own, which in the end was enshrined formally in the new constitution of the All India Scheduled Caste Federation, established in 1942. A textual discursive representation o…
Partition and the Ruptures in Dalit Identity Politics in Bengal
A number of historical studies have revealed that there were powerful Dalit movements among groups such as the Rajbansis and Namasudras in northern and eastern districts in colonial Bengal. The weakening and in some cases almost disappearance of these movements after 1947 is difficult to explain. One plausible explanation could lie in the emotional and physical displacement caused by Partition of the province. Both groups lived in the border regi…
From alienation to integration
Indian Cinema and the Presentist Use of History
This article critically assesses Deepa Mehta's Earth (1998) and Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan (2001) as cultural outputs of recent political and historical debates over the nature of India's nationhood. The article argues that the films politicize history, constructing an innocent past with the aim of advocating a more inclusive Indian society
Partition in Bengal
The essay introduces caste as a category for discussing the history of Partition of India, which until now has focused almost exclusively on the Hindus, Sikhs and the Muslims. The Dalit or the ‘untouchables’ of India are usually left out of this discussion, and whenever they are brought in, they are portrayed as either disinterested onlookers or accidental victims. On the contrary, as this essay will argue, the Dalit were deeply entangled in Part…
Freedom and its enemies
The fiftieth anniversary of Indian Independence became an occasion for the publication of a huge body of literature on post-colonial India. Understandably, the discussion of 1947 in this literature is largely focussed on Partition - its memories and its long-term effects on the nation.\nEarlier studies on Partition looked at the 'event' as a part of the grand narrative of the formation of two nation-states in the subcontinent; but in recent times…
Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives
Journal Article Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965. Get access Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 254. $50.00. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Victoria University of Wellington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
The Story of an Aborted Revolution
In the early days of independence the province of West Bengal witnessed a violent communist upsurge in 1948–50. In many ways the events of this period foreshadowed what happened in this province during the Naxalite experiment of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. This paper, using recently declassified IB records, seeks to reconstruct this less-known episode in the history of the communist movement in India. It was apparently an attempt to reviv…
From alienation to integration
Transfer of Power and the Crisis of Dalit Politics in India, 1945-47
Ever since its beginning, organized dalit politics under the leadership of Dr B. R. Ambedkar had been consistently moving away from the Indian National Congress and the Gandhian politics of integration. It was drifting towards an assertion of separate political identity of its own, which in the end was enshrined formally in the new constitution of the All India Scheduled Caste Federation, established in 1942. A textual discursive representation o…
Caste, culture, and hegemony
Freedom and its enemies
The fiftieth anniversary of Indian Independence became an occasion for the publication of a huge body of literature on post-colonial India. Understandably, the discussion of 1947 in this literature is largely focussed on Partition - its memories and its long-term effects on the nation.\nEarlier studies on Partition looked at the 'event' as a part of the grand narrative of the formation of two nation-states in the subcontinent; but in recent times…
The Story of an Aborted Revolution
In the early days of independence the province of West Bengal witnessed a violent communist upsurge in 1948–50. In many ways the events of this period foreshadowed what happened in this province during the Naxalite experiment of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. This paper, using recently declassified IB records, seeks to reconstruct this less-known episode in the history of the communist movement in India. It was apparently an attempt to reviv…
Indian Cinema and the Presentist Use of History
This article critically assesses Deepa Mehta's Earth (1998) and Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan (2001) as cultural outputs of recent political and historical debates over the nature of India's nationhood. The article argues that the films politicize history, constructing an innocent past with the aim of advocating a more inclusive Indian society
Partition and the Ruptures in Dalit Identity Politics in Bengal
A number of historical studies have revealed that there were powerful Dalit movements among groups such as the Rajbansis and Namasudras in northern and eastern districts in colonial Bengal. The weakening and in some cases almost disappearance of these movements after 1947 is difficult to explain. One plausible explanation could lie in the emotional and physical displacement caused by Partition of the province. Both groups lived in the border regi…
India–New Zealand Relations in the New Century
India–New Zealand relations, which could be historically dated back to the days of the British Empire, lacked until recently in substance and were rocked by several irritants, the most important of which were the divergent views on the issue of nuclear non-proliferation. However, in last one decade or so there have been some remarkable developments in this bilateral relation, as the security interests of the two nations have converged, volume of …
Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives
Journal Article Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965. Get access Haimanti Roy. Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 254. $50.00. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Victoria University of Wellington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
Religion and Modernity in India
Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual’s private life, is a challenging idea for any culture. In India it faces a particularly unusual problem: the persistence of numerous traditional and religious practices means that religion and modernity co-habit here in a complex, plural, transient, and historically evolving relationship. Religion and Modernity in India explores this complex relationship through a seri…
Partition in Bengal
The essay introduces caste as a category for discussing the history of Partition of India, which until now has focused almost exclusively on the Hindus, Sikhs and the Muslims. The Dalit or the ‘untouchables’ of India are usually left out of this discussion, and whenever they are brought in, they are portrayed as either disinterested onlookers or accidental victims. On the contrary, as this essay will argue, the Dalit were deeply entangled in Part…
Indians and the Antipodes
This book looks at the history of Indian migrants in Australia and New Zealand over a period of two and a half centuries. It looks at the history of their migration, settlement, and encounter with racism. Indians now constitute a significant ethnic minority in Australia and New Zealand. According to the most recent census figures, they number slightly more than half a million, but represent a successful ethnic community making significant contrib…
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal
Although many commentators believed that caste did not matter in West Bengal, in recent years it has emerged as a significant factor in electoral politics. The decline of the Left and the rise of the centrist-incumbent have fanned identity politics and the resurgence of caste-based political mobilisation. In this conversation, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, a well-known expert in the history and politics of caste in Bengal, illuminates the complexities, u…
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